Write Club started as a way to get out of the house and away from excuses
not to write. Occasionally we do more talking about writing than actual
writing, but this isn't a bad thing. We're not a typical writing group; we
don't do critiques or exercises. We just get together once at week at a
local bookstore and write, or talk frankly about the craft, our
frustrations, successes, disappoinments and why the hell we ever thought a
career that is defined more by rejection than acceptance was a good
idea.

Rules of Write Club

Rule one: You must talk about Write Club.

Rule two: You must write.

Rule three: Remember Mer's grandpa's words of wisdom: When the turtle gets
his tail cut off in the lawnmower, the audience will care (in part just
because they're the audience).

"'That orgasm is really problematic.' And I said, 'Well, any one you walk
away from...'" - Mary Lou

"So you're a sniper." -Mary Lou
"I'm not a sniper, because I basically jump up and giggle." -Mer

"[Ann Coulter] said that Democrat women are hairy and smelly and are
piewagons, but no one knows what that means." -Mary Lou
"You would think that would be the Republican ideal. Not only do you bake
cookies, but you have pie! In a wagon! And you take it around the
neighborhood!" -Mer

"That [american] was the first word I read. I was with my mom, and there
was something on the sink... no toilet." -Mer
"American Standard." -Eric
"Yeah, on the toilet. And I pointed at it and said to my mom, 'It's my
name!', because I read the 'mer' in it." -Mer
"So the first word you read was on a toilet." -Julie
"Explains a lot, doesn't it?" -Mer

Discussing popslash...
"See, there was this story, and they were all on a bus..." -Mary Lou
"Stop!" -Mer
"Now you know what we feel like when you don't stop." -Eric
"I am your karmic revenge." -Mary Lou, to Mer

"I'm trying to think of what I would do in this situation, if I were me."
-Mer

"If I were you, you wouldn't find this so horrifying. Or maybe you
would." -Mary Lou

"You've dreamed of this day." -Mer
"I've lived this day. Have you seen these quotes?" -Julie
"I meant me getting my comeuppance." -Mer
"Oh." -Julie
"I'm sorry, was this about me?" -Mer

"My up came and went." -Mer

"There was only one of me [on the cot]." -Julie

"Hey look. If I stop providing material for the unauthorized
autobiography of me... that might work in my favor." -Mer

Upon seeing the small child behind us...
"Maybe we shouldn't be saying 'manwhore' so loud." -Mer